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| What is a class G amp ? My understanding is that a Class G amp will distort differently than other amp designs, and that historically, distortion and with Class G how it exhibits itself in regards to sound quality (always near and dear to audiophile types)has been proble... | |
| Why not horns? BTW Dale Harder's TLS Walsh speakers can be seen in his posted system here which is also an audiogon "featured" system. | |
| Why not horns? YEs, Magnepan has a dealer network while OHM/Walsh went factory direct only back in the 90s. I owned Maggies and older OHMs concurrently from 1985-2007. Then I realized that OHM was still around and providing upgrades for their old speakers. I dec... | |
| CD changer or squeezbox or dedicated server? Music server is the option with biggest upside in terms of flexibility and sound quality. Downside is more complexity during setup, time required to rip disks, and additional time and expense to set up and keep backups running so there is a spare ... | |
| What is a class G amp ? "Call it improved class D"Or is Class D improved Class G?Class G has been around longer but never seemed to break out in home audio.I suspect class D is more efficient. Also its no comparison soundwise between the Class G Hitachi receiver and curr... | |
| What is a class G amp ? I had a Class G Hitachi SR-804 receiver I bought in 1978 for years. It was a good but not outstanding sounding piece. Not familiar with the Arcam though. Hadn't heard about Class G in years.Class G enables higher peak power delivery in a smaller p... | |
| Upgrade advice, please. I think you will do better regarding amplification with separates than integrated in your price range.Have fun! | |
| Musical Speakers - If you like that sort of thing. "What is accuracy"Its getting the signal present in the source material (record, CD) through in a cleanly amplified electrical state to the speakers so the speakers can then attempt to accurately convert the signal into sound.Another way to look a... | |
| Musical Speakers - If you like that sort of thing. Which Vina do you prefer? Reality or illusion?Pretty Vina and Real Vina | |
| impedance matching amp/preamp Without getting into technical details, the analogy of how a drum skin works to produce sound is a good one to help understand what is going on.A drumskin that is too loose will have less impedance to resist the strike of the drumstick which can r... | |
| Why not horns? Horns have been around a while. I have to believe there are a good number of engineers out there who understand the key principles pretty well.Now, do a search and try to find experts on Walsh driver theory and construction! The inventor (Lincoln ... | |
| The Hub: Just call it UBANGI ! Interesting article. Thanks! | |
| Musical Speakers - If you like that sort of thing. "She has an illusion, and you have reality. May your way be as pleasant. "--"The Keeper" from the original Star Trek pilot episode 'The Cage" | |
| impedance matching amp/preamp I think I came across something like this before where 100K output impedance is the recommended input impedance for the amp to match the pre-amp's output. Not saying that is the case for certain in your case, but it is possible. 60K input impedanc... | |
| Why not horns? Yes, it seems there are two distinctive large camps of horn owners and then all the rest:1) enthusiasts with custom horns2) Klipsch owners (many that have also customized these themselves to some extent) |